more atlas than textbook, which is good. it looks best for curious wandering and side by side checking, not for settling every taxonomy argument when different backbones disagree.
Ptree · Interactive Tree of Life
Explore life across 11 scientific trees, comparing ancestry, traits, fossils, habitats, and sources.
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Ptree is an interactive tool that visualizes the tree of life across multiple scientific data sources. It integrates taxonomy, evolutionary branching, traits, fossils, and habitats to allow exploration and comparison of biodiversity from kingdom to species level. It aggregates data from numerous scientific databases and provides a detailed interactive experience for studying life forms.
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Show HN115 source points · 28 comments
Great design, very snappy. Fun to browse and learn about species I didn't know exist and see how species are related to each other.
takomora · Imported from Show HN
Super cool! I just learned about 'incertae sedis' from here—though I think these things should at least be in their kingdom (e.g. Naldaviricetes are clearly viruses no?)
rhaps0dy · Imported from Show HN
Some of the mouse-overs don't seem to match, hovering over 'viruses' shows a raccoon, and hovering over 'lungfish' shows a bird eating a fish
Aardwolf · Imported from Show HN
> Made by the creator of ptable.com, a popular interactive periodic table website around since 1997. Discussed a few times over the years! Interactive Periodic Table - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27650576 - June 2021 (22 comments) Dynamic Periodic Table (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20495105 - July 2019 (21 comments) Worlds Best Periodic Table - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4378346 - Aug 2012 (5 comments) Dynamic Periodic Table - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3199922 - Nov 2011 (20 comments) Dynamic/Interactive Periodic Table - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1193431 - March 2010 (2 comments)
dang · Imported from Show HN
Very cool. Perhaps you've seen OneZoom[0] already which is purely based on phylogenetic data sourced from Open Tree of Life. OTOL has been around for a long time. The project aggregates phylogenetic data from thousands of studies and creates a massive synthetic tree.[1] It's neat because anyone can contribute. If you find a study not represented in there you can contribute the newick tree/annotation for it. [0] https://www.onezoom.org/ [1] https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/opentree/argus/ottol@378964/...
culi · Imported from Show HN